Spam fed Allied troops by the millions of pounds.
Hormel launched the canned meat in 1937, and during World War II more than 150 million pounds shipped to Allied troops, who ate it everywhere and tired of it fast. A 1970 Monty Python sketch turned that wartime ubiquity into a joke about unwanted abundance — and decades later, coders borrowed the word for the junk email flooding inboxes worldwide.
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